Life in Paradise, Questions about the Trees, the Nuts, the Voices---

by prologos 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  prologos

  In the "Adam to Armageddon" sermon that sums up or is the basis of the "TRUTH" or the world-view of the Wt religion,

  The Eden story is basic, is it literal, symbolic? that matters not, but it has to make sense, so:

  testing:

  what would have happened if E&A have had only the almonds, walnuts and that old chestnut,-- the dates, and

  NOT any fruit of the 2 special, magical trees?

  had never eaten of the tree of life?

  Life in Pradise, without the Tree of Life diet

  HOW LONG?

  we are told that we die because we are bad, are sinners, offspring of sinners. Really?

  better to stick to reality, without belief in magic trees, talking snakes, and that old chestnut Armageddon?

  and make good choices with your dates.

  not the fruit, or your predictions, but the timely meet-ups.
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  prologos

  s implified, it implies:

  if tree is need to live long,

  inherited sin is wrong.

  if the bread mold idea does not explain death, but nature does,

  the whole story is invented, including the

  redemption by death, waterwalking, demon chasing, healing, pig drowning *, resurrecting, water to wine, loaf & fishes carpenter from Galilei.

  * oops the demon drowned the pigs. but the father drowned the lot.
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  tec

  Are you asking according to the wts theology (due to something they have written or announced)... or according to anything, including truth?

  Peace,

  tammy
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  prologos

  asking for the results of thought experiments* plugging in different scenarios to see the outcome, the logic.

  the big question for me is, WT theology has the bread pan analogy, Adam's sin made him genetically, spiriyually flawed and it was passed on to all his offspring.

  My take is more on the natural side. Adam died because of punishment. because God withheld a better lfe from him

  Adam died of starvation, a natural death, a death he was born with as are all natural entities, stars, animals, trees, humans.

  Even if Adam had never sinned, had he not gotten hold of the tree of life, he would have died too.

  The whole edifice so ingeniously erected on the "Sin causing death" story is susspect. so is redemption then.

  possibly the tree of life is not the antidot Wt thinks it is to make physical life eternal possibly, but has a spiritual meaning.

  better you tec to tackle that.

  * a process validated by the the great thinkers at the turn of the last century.
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  Shanagirl

  http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/apocjn-davies.html

  Shana

  
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